By james art More than 50 short films from filmmakers from the Inland Empire and beyond will be screened at the second Hemet Film Festival.
The event is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Hemet Theater, according to a press release.
The event will kick off on Friday, November 8 with a free opening night party at 6:00 p.m., which will be open to the public. Local music videos and skate videos will be screened while filmmakers and guests mingle, the release states.
“Junior: The Miniseries” will be shown at 8:30 p.m. It stars festival co-founder Daniel Maggio and tells the fictional story of his father as a drug lord in Hemet in the late 1980s.
On Saturday, November 9, movies can be seen from 11:00 a.m. The feature film of the day, the horror-comedy called Hemet, or The Landlady Doesn’t Drink Tea, is scheduled for 8:00 p.m.